Impact of a Virtual Clinic in a Paediatric Cardiology Network on Northeast Brazil

Table 2

Comparison of clinical examination among patients according to mode of access to RCP virtual clinic.

	Origin
	Triage program		Other forms		Sig.
	()	%	()	%
HDA (first medical consultation)					<0,001
Asymptomatic	0	0,0%	80	18,9%
Surgical evaluation	0	0,0%	11	2,6%
Neonatal Echo follow-up	229	99,6%	0	0,0%
Postoperative follow-up	0	0,0%	66	15,6%
Others	1	0,4%	266	62,9%
Medical management (last medical consultation)					0,260
Hospital admission	38	16,5%	52	12,3%
Hospital discharge	3	1,3%	9	2,1%
Follow-up	189	82,2%	362	85,6%
General state (first medical consultation)					<0,001
Good	224	97,4%	377	89,1%
Decayed	0	0,0%	5	1,2%
Regular	6	2,6%	41	9,7%
General state (last medical consultation)					0,014
Good	223	97,0%	385	91,0%
Decayed	0	0,0%	3	0,7%
Regular	7	3,0%	35	8,3%
Skin (last medical consultation)					0,244
Cyanotic	3	1,3%	15	3,5%
Colored	213	92,6%	384	90,8%
Pale	14	6,1%	24	5,7%
Respiratory pattern (last medical consultation)					0,047
Dyspnea	17	7,4%	15	3,5%
Eupneic	213	92,6%	408	96,5%
Pulmonary auscultation (last medical consultation)					0,504
Anormal	2	0,9%	7	1,7%
Normal	228	99,1%	416	98,3%
Abdomen (last medical consultation)					0,153
Hepatomegaly	11	4,8%	9	2,1%
Normal	218	94,8%	413	97,6%
Others	1	0,4%	1	0,2%
Perfusion (last medical consultation)					0,167
Normal	230	100,0%	418	98,8%
Compromised	0	0,0%	5	1,2%
Peripheral pulses (last medical consultation)					1,000
Anormal	2	0,9%	4	0,9%
Normal	228	99,1%	419	99,1%
Murmur (first medical consultation)					0,371
Absent	125	54,3%	213	50,4%
Present	105	45,7%	210	49,6%
Continuous	4	3,8%	8	3,8%
Diastolic	0	0,0%	2	1,0%
Systolic	101	96,2%	200	95,2%

Chi-square test.
Fisher's exact test.